Confession of the lioness
By: Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw
Contributors: Brookshaw, David, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780374129231
Subjects: Women; Spirits; Villages; Lion attacks; Male domination (Social structure); Fiction
Work titles: Confissão da leoa
Description: A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there